Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Sanderson

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.

Ben Mezrich

There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.

Ben Okri

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

Barbara Kingsolver

I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night.

Barbara Kingsolver

If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Barbara Kingsolver

There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.

Barbara Mertz

I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.

Augustus

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

Augusten Burroughs

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Steven Pinker

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

Christopher Taylor

Muslim countries where notions of free expression are not as familiar -- what they see in the whole thing is the offensive cartoon to their prophet.

Norman Reedus

I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that's been requested of me a couple of times. I'm constantly busy.

Judy Horacek

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.

J. Michael Straczynski

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

John Updike

My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.

Roz Chast

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

Zac Efron

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

Roz Chast

Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons.

Andy Bush

We were prepared for mass casualties and had 60,000 bottles of water brought in overnight.

John Cook

We might not be popping the champagne bottles yet, ... but we're chilling them already.

Stephen J. Cannell

A lot of making TV is lightening in a bottle.

J. K. Rowling

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

Richard Bush

I came up here to help out where I can. And not just medical stuff, but I've been moving bottles of water and everything else.

Sela Ward

I always carry Evian bottle and sunscreen.

Alan Sugar

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

Cary Grant

A shot of brandy can save your life, but a bottle of brandy can kill you.

Boyle Roche

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.